Goode Partners has raised $225 million for investments in the consumer sector, one month after adding trendy boutique chain Intermix to its portfolio.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Gordon Brothers’ private equity arm has sold specialty retailer Spencer’s Gifts to ACON Investments after streamlining its business and redesigning its stores.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Lincolnshire Management has sold racquet maker Prince Sports to Nautic Partners, after streamlining the company’s operations and infusing its products with new technology.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Paladin Capital and a fund led by Credit Suisse, with the backing of the Abu Dhabi government, have invested $77 million in a producer of thin film solar products.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
KKR’s negotiations with underwriters of the First Data deal -- the second such mega deal for which banks have had difficulty syndicating the debt -- will be a harbinger of things to come, says Dechert attorney Scott Zimmerman.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Riverside has sold Inscape Publishing to New York-based Sentinel Partners, resulting in a 3.2x return. It is the US firm’s sixth exit this year.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Castanea Parters has made the first investment from its latest fund with the acquisition of clothing designer Betsey Johnson.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has made a co-investment of $10 million with GTI Group in GloriOil, a company formed by GTI in 2005 to commercialise a biotechnology that increases oil well efficiency.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Palo Alto, California-based venture firm Technology Partners has closed its latest fund on $300 million, to be allocated to the cleantech and life science sectors.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Emerging markets funds raised $21.5 billion in the first six months of the year, and are poised to surpass last year's total of $33.3 billion, according to data from the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
